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The Taliban Is Just as Bad as It Always Was

October 16, 2021

A member of the Taliban stands guard in front of a building with a Taliban flag.

What I Learned While Hunting Humans

October 6, 2021

Illustration of clouds forming a skull shape

America Played Into Al-Qaeda’s Hands

September 11, 2021

A mosque in Killa Saif Ullah (CK) Pakistan.

Europe Should Drop the Act on Afghanistan

September 7, 2021

Boris Johnson walks alongside British troops.

The Women Burning Their Degree Certificates

September 3, 2021

People wait to board a military plane.

China’s ‘Very Tricky Situation’

Timothy McLaughlin

September 2, 2021

An illustration of China and Taiwan combined with photos of the American and Taiwanese flags, and a photo of Xi Jinping.

The Atlantic Daily: Biden Stands By His Afghanistan Withdrawal

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

August 31, 2021

Red 'A' on envelope

Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan

August 30, 2021

President Joe Biden

How Afghanistan Changed a Superpower

August 28, 2021

Soviet soldiers head back home from Afghanistan in 1989

The Two Blows America Is Dealing to the Taliban

August 27, 2021

An illustration of a helicopter lifting a brain

The Atlantic Daily: Afghanistan Evacuations Are a Race Against the Clock

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

August 24, 2021

Red 'A' on white envelope

An ‘Early Test Case’ for a China-Led World

Michael Schuman

August 24, 2021

A masked Taliban official stands next to a masked Chinese official.

Americans Never Understood Afghanistan Like the Taliban Did

August 23, 2021

Boy selling balloons in Kabul in the early 1990's.

Biden Is Betting Americans Will Forget About Afghanistan

August 20, 2021

President Joe Biden speaks into a microphone with his hands held up to frame the lower half of his face.

Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

August 20, 2021

Bandoliers rest on sandbags in the foreground, overlooking a rocky valley.

The Taliban’s Biggest Threat Isn’t an Armed Group

August 20, 2021

Young Afghan men and women listen to a concert in Kabul.

The Atlantic Daily: MAGA Cowed Trump on Afghanistan

David A. Graham

August 19, 2021

Trump yelling. Sound is Afghanistan flag.

The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights

Caitlin Flanagan

August 19, 2021

Afghan schoolgirls walking through a cemetery.

What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

August 19, 2021

Illustration of sound waves and a bullet

This Is Not the Taliban 2.0

August 18, 2021

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid addresses a news conference in Kabul.

The Plywood Army

Elliot Ackerman

August 17, 2021

An illustration of a soldier made out of wood

So Much for a ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’

August 17, 2021

Afghan citizens climbing atop a plane at Kabul airport.

Biden’s ‘America First’ Policy on Afghanistan

David A. Graham

August 16, 2021

Joe Biden walks from the podium after speaking about Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House, Monday.

Biden Was Right

Daniel Silverberg

August 16, 2021

A Taliban member in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 15, 2021

The Taliban’s Return Is Catastrophic for Women

August 16, 2021

A woman in a burka puts her hand up to a car window, looking in at a passenger.

A Moment for Soul-Searching

August 16, 2021

A black-and-white photo of a man looking up at some nearby birds from a rooftop

Afghanistan Is Your Fault

August 16, 2021

A soldier appears in a rear view mirror

The One Thing That Could’ve Changed the War in Afghanistan

August 15, 2021

In Kunar Province's volatile Pech River Valley, a U.S. Army soldier fires a rocket-propelled grenade during a firefight with Taliban insurgents.

What We Got Wrong in Afghanistan

August 12, 2021

U.S. Army soldiers oversee the training of their Afghan counterparts.

‘How Does One Process Defeat?’

July 29, 2021

Pink smoke in a field

How the Afghanistan Withdrawal Costs the U.S. With China

Richard Fontaine and Vance Serchuk

June 25, 2021

A collage of the Afghan and Chinese flags.

The Moral Catastrophe Unfolding in Afghanistan

Elliot Ackerman

June 11, 2021

Interpreters being addressed by two soldiers in Afghanistan

America Will Have to Reckon With Its Cynicism About Afghanistan

Elliot Ackerman

May 16, 2021

A broken window of a school in Afghanistan

The Original Sin of the War in Afghanistan

April 20, 2021

Artistic collage of photos of Joe Biden and American soldiers

What Was America Doing in Afghanistan?

April 14, 2021

A soldier from the 101st Airborne Division patrols the Pech Valley in 2010

Exit Strategy

April 13, 2021

Soldiers in Afghanistan